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Reacting to the controversy surrounding Rep. Todd Akin's controversial comments regarding rape and abortion, former "Saturday Night Live" star and conservative activist Victoria Jackson said on Wednesday that if she were raped she would have the baby because it "would be a blessing," noting that the baby "has its own DNA" and is "not the father's DNA."
Responding to a HuffPost Gay Voices blog post from a former friend who said he ended their friendship because of her views on homosexuality, Jackson said she doesn't "think people should identify themselves by their sexual life."
"The Todd Akin thing was so blown out of proportion -- it's a joke," Jackson said at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., when interviewed for my SiriusXM OutQ radio program. "How many times do people get pregnant from rape? It's point zero zero one percent. It's a joke. I read lots of articles. I know people, because I'm 53. I've know a lot of people, and I've actually never known anyone who got pregnant from being raped."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/victoria-jackson-todd-akin-rape-abortion_n_1847852.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
(video of interview at link)
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JFC her career, as sucky as it was, was up about 20-25 years ago. This is just so mocking and mean.
Honest question: is she mentally ill?
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)her recent comments make her characters on SNL seem like intellectuals in comparison.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Firesidechat
(21 posts)It never ceases to amaze me at the intellectual capacity of a Republican voter.
What do they want to conserve most?
Idiocy ??
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)She really does seem off the rails.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)the obvious.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)She never had to 'play' a role.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)to play an airhead was to play someone smarter and nicer than she actually is.
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)"I've know a lot of people, and I've actually never known anyone who got pregnant from being raped." "
Hello, Vicky! I am BTA!! I know I didn't pregnant from being raped, but guess who did?! One hint: I call her mom!
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)For real.
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)I can't believe some people. This is BASIC biology. And people wonder why we, as a country, as doing so poorly. If only stupidity were painful!
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Blecht
(3,803 posts)Bill Nye has it right:
This is what happens when we stop teaching science.
niyad
(113,346 posts)oh, by the way, go buy a copy of "idiot's guide to biology" before you ever open your mouth again
about a subject on which you are so clearly ignorant.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Confusious
(8,317 posts)Something like "Baby's first lesson in genetics" with colored blocks and shit.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)ignorant fool.
(edited because I misread it as "victoria justice" at first. My apologies to Ms. Justice.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)noting that the baby "has its own DNA" and is "not the father's DNA."
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Spontaneous generation? What an ignorant toad.
Cha
(297,323 posts)Victoria Jackson will be forever linked with Todd Akin. Two raging idiots in a pod.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)so desperate to defend the indefensible - it is sad, really
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I like the Zerbina, do... Zippy the Pin Head's wife?
So, Victoria Jackson... what are your needs here? .... too bad they don't coincide with the public's need to be entertained. You are absurd and pathetic with the best of your career in re-runs next to "Tunes the Cat"
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spanone
(135,844 posts)therefore she concludes it doesn't happen. okie dokie.
Odd Won Out
(85 posts)that prevents Janine Turner from being the biggest idiot on the planet.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)I had to google Janine Turner. I had no idea she went off the deep end too.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)I'm glad I don't know who the hell she is.
"I know people because I'm 53"????
Freaky weird
progressoid
(49,991 posts)How can she even function in the modern world?
Cha
(297,323 posts)time I read her spouting off.
The goprick party is exploding with idiots.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)That was the estimate from sciency-egghead types in 1996. That was based on a rate of about 5%.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248
I know lots of people too. I don't know anyone who has divulged that she became pregnant after rape. The difference is that I don't assume that my anecdote is a nationally representative sample.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)I really loathe her.
Did you see the video? How she MOCKS nightmares from being raped?
blueamy66
(6,795 posts)nt
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)I mean, if anything comes out of her mouth, its stupid.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Sure seems like it. And shut the fuck up, Jackson. You're a complete idiot.
marmar
(77,081 posts)slampoet
(5,032 posts)Even these days with so many cast members I can't think of almost any who were as unappealing and on as long without almost any memorable moments.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)What? Is a pregnancy from rape an immaculate conception? Boy these conservatives really did miss science class didn't they?
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I really hate to link to WorldNutDaily, but this article shows how deep her psychosis goes. If nothing else, it's good for a laugh just to show how wingnuts routinely listen to crazy people as if their incoherent ramblings make sense.
http://www.wnd.com/2011/03/273409/
GCP
(8,166 posts)Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her cara weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickerssmells like it has been fumigated with sweet incense. Steering with elbows and the occasional pinkie, she opens a Bible inscribed with her name and quotes Scripture in her inimitable high-pitched voice. Then she turns the camera on a reporter riding shotgun. She suspects he's a socialist. "Don't you think that some people are on welfare from cradle to grave," she demands, "because the government is encouraging them never to work?"
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In 1986, she flew to New York to audition for SNL. Executive producer Lorne Michaels, she remembers, curled his lower lip and lamented her lack of comedic characters. So the next time she was on Carson's show, she continued the audition by doing impressions of Diana Ross and Edith Bunker and inventing a character: a glum boss interviewing Carson for a job. She joined the SNL cast that season. With a new baby in tow, she and Nisan bought a four-bedroom Colonial in Weston, Connecticut. They split time between the two homes.
But Michaels's trepidation had been spot-on. Victoria's castmates included Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, and Dana Carvey. She couldn't keep up. "I lived on pure adrenaline," she says. "You always think you're going to get fired. You're always competing with your cast members for airtime."
Coming up with characters and premises for skits was a supreme struggle. She confesses that one of her funnier sketches"Victoria's Secrets," in which she wore lingerie and throatily fumbled at being sexywas a product of begging castmate Jon Lovitz and writer Conan O'Brien for ideas as they walked down an office hallway.
Much more at link.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and might suffer mentally from the pregnancy.
You either do or do not think a fetus is a person, and it is murder to have an abortion in the first trimester.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Perhaps she may know some individuals who are gay, but I am strongly certain they do not count her as one of their friends.